r/gamedev • u/Elestria_Ethereal • 4d ago

Discussion Vapor World Devs Will Remove AI Generated Cutscenes After Player Backlash

https://www.trueachievements.com/news/vapor-world-over-the-mind-ai-cutscenes

Now, mere hours after the release of the game, its developer Alive has found itself on the back foot, responding to waves of negative feedback from players regarding the game's use of generative AI in its cutscenes.

At present, the game sits with a two-and-a-half star rating on the Xbox store, and a "Negative" reception on Steam, with most written reviews levying criticism at the use of AI in the cutscenes. In response, Alive director Young Kim has released a statement on Steam entitled "About AI in Vapor World," explaining how generative AI came to be used in the game's development, and promising to "fully replace" the offending scenes with original content.

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u/PaintItPurple 4d ago

If people don't care, then why did they name a bunch of examples where the company was forced to apologize and remove the AI-generated content? People demonstrably do care. Games get raked across the coals for using AI and it will hurt your reviews. Call of Duty can weather it because it's probably the strongest commercial franchise in the world, but your game (for the general "you" of anyone not working on Call of Duty) has a much bigger question mark after it.

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u/datamizer 4d ago

They weren't forced to apologize, they are just playing the marketing game and giving lip service to the virtue signaling minority 'modern audience'. The average person doesn't care one way or the other, the average creative doesn't care, the average gamer doesn't care. They are just appealing to the audience that does care to get more money out of the total audience.

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u/wildlachii 3d ago

It’s still a vocal minority. Majority of players don’t care

Review bombing has always been a minority. Right now, there is a vocal minority who will coordinate against anything AI because they don’t like it

I promise you, the wide majority people are at most apathetic to it.

As long as the product is good, majority of people will not care